1. Creating a Bike to Work Day
National Bike Month: May
By: Candice Rilling

2. Reasons for Biking Source: Bicycling/Moving America Forward
Promotes healthier lifestyles
Creates jobs and supports independent businesses
Lowers healthcare costs
Strengthens family bonds
Provides a recreational outlet for youth
Builds closer-knit communities
Reduces polluting emissions
Decreases road congestion
Lessens our dependence on foreign oil
Source: Bicycling/Moving America Forward

3. Promoting Biking at Work
A bike ride a day...
Just three hours of bicycling per week can reduce a person’s risk of heart disease and stroke by 50%.
Source: LEAGUE OF AMERICAN BICYCLISTS

4. Bike to Work Day Overview
Planning
Dates, location, incentives, market, evaluation, and etc.
Day of Bike to Work Day
Pictures, enter in raffle, and etc.
Evaluate
Changes for next year

5. How to start Start with a plan
Pick a leader; have either your wellness committee leader or a person be responsible for the Bike to Work Day event
Set date and time and get approval from manager
Identify goals of the event
Have a timeline as to when you would like to complete the assign tasks
Create committees or assign specific tasks to employee (planning/publicize the event, create a budget)
Goals: how many people, how many miles, and etc.

6. Where to Begin? Designated start area/assess bike trails.
Organize and get approval for employees to park at another place.
If time permits; pick a weekend or a day and test out the route
Once there is a date and time set then we need to ask ourselves
Are employees able to ride their bike from home to work?
If it is too far or unsafe to bike from home then…
Have a volunteers test out a route

7. Reel Them In Budget for resources or incentives What about incentives?
Resources may include:
Get to Know Your Bike workshop
Biking awareness workshop
Helmets
Bikes
What about incentives?
Resources in case employees do not have a bike or helmet.
Biking awareness:
Have an experienced biker teach employees bike safety or bring someone in
Hand signals
Laws associated with biking

8. Incentives Free Breakfast or Lunch Raffle
T-Shirts (either prior to event or the day of)
Bike related gear
Gift cards/certificate
T-shirt- they can wear for the day of the event or receive one when they arrive to work
Bike related gear: lights, helmet

9. Promote! Create: flyers, newsletters, sample email message, etc.
Use social media for reminders
Registration form (online or paper)

10. Evaluate Why Evaluate? Plan for next year To see if goals were met
To see what changes need to be made
How to make Bike to Work day more successful
Plan for next year

11. Resources in the Community
Bike Surgeon
You’re so Vane

12. Resource Bike Surgeon: Tricia Work
Workshops Bike Safety, Bike Trails, Getting to know your Bike, and etc. Schedule to organize
Address: 404 S Illinois Ave Carbondale, IL
Phone:
Hours: 10 am-5:30 pm Monday-Saturday
Website:
A long-term rental agreement can be arranged if needed

13. Resource 2 You’re So Vane Bicycle and Gift Shop Contact: Randy
Address: 5 East Poplar St, Harrisburg, IL
Offer Bike rentals
Phone number:
Website: /Mission_Statement.html

14. During Bike to Work Day event
Have someone take pictures of the event!
Once employees arrive take a picture with them next to their bike!
Have them sign a sheet or fill out a raffle card to track employees who participated in Bike to Work Day.
Hand out T-shirts (optional).
Breakfast (optional).

15. After Bike to Work Day Event
Post pictures on social media
Create a poster/presentation highlighting the event
Include pictures, names of who participated, flyer, newsletter
Raffle/Breakfast or Lunch
Talk about the event
How many employees participated
Accomplished goals
Evaluation Survey
Plan for next year
Determine changes to be made for next year
To post picture on social media or on poster permission maybe needed.
Participate- can list them by department if you choose too.
Evaluation can be completed either using hard copy or online

16. Example

17. Alternatives to Bike to Work Day
Healthy challenges within the different departments, men versus women, under 40 vs over 40, etc. and even other businesses.
Awards breakfast
Race:
same starting location, riding the fastest to work